Welcome to this episode of the modern mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Cook,

and today's episode is all about the unexpected upside of procrastinating. It can be a problem,

but it can also be your superpower. Let's talk about how to use procrastination for good.

The world, as I see it, is made up of two kinds

of people, those who make their beds every day and those who laugh at the bedmakers, because why bother?

I've always been a bedmaker. I like the feeling of a tiny accomplishment early in my day.

I've also been a little bit self-righteous about it. Bedmaking requires a sense of

discipline, so obviously making your bed is just better, right? Like making a bed, I've always

defaulted to assuming that planning takes discipline, so that must mean planning is always better

than procrastinating. But what if my logic is wrong? This pandemic has me calling

a lot of old assumptions into question. And while I'm still largely a planner, I'm finding

myself dallying with procrastination in small doses. And you know what? Sometimes under the right

circumstances, procrastinating feels good, and it also delivers a different

kind of result. So let's talk today about when and why it's okay to let procrastination take the wheel.

Is your procrastination helping you or holding you back? If procrastination tends to be how you roll, start by asking yourself

whether it's serving you or holding you back. Here are a few questions you might sit with.

Am I scrambling but making things happen or am I dropping balls and missing deadlines? Do I feel

like my work product suffers from the rush? Is my procrastination negatively

impacting anybody other than myself? And would something in my life improve if I put more effort

into planning? Be honest with yourself and let your answers inform the approach you take.

If your procrastination is either impacting someone

else or holding you back in any way, it might be time to strive to overcome it. But if your

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